6.10 Word order. Notice in the example above that you do not determine whether a word is the subject or the object by its order in the sentence as you do in English. The only way to determine the subject or direct object of a Greek verb is by the case endings. This cannot be stressed too much. Your natural inclination will be to ignore the case endings and assume that the word before the verb is the subject and the word after the verb is the direct object. Fight this tendency!
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